10 Bible Verses about The Rich Lording It

But you have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judges?

The poor uses entreaties; but the rich answers roughly.

The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

The poor is hated even of his own neighbor: but the rich has many friends.

For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in fine apparel, and there come in also a poor man in shabby clothing;

Curse not the king, no not even in your thought; and curse not the rich in your bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which has wings shall tell the matter.

And the LORD sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had a great many flocks and herds: But the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own food, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.read more.
And there came a traveler unto the rich man, and he refused to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to prepare for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and prepared it for the man that was come to him.

And now will I show you the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than them all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Greece.

For her rich men are full of violence, and her inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

How much less to him that regards not the persons of princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.